♋️ consume /kənˈsjuːm /
▸ verb [with obj.]
1 eat, drink, or ingest (food or drink):
✅ people consume a good deal of sugar in drinks.
✡▪ (of a fire) completely destroy:
the fire spread rapidly, consuming many homes.
✡▪ use up (a resource):
this process consumes enormous amounts of energy.
❇️ buy (goods or services):
accounting provides measures of the economic goods and services consumed.
❇️ (of a feeling) completely fill the mind of (someone)
➡️ Synonyms: absorb, apply, avail oneself of, deplete, devour, dissipate, dominate, drain, drivel, eat up
➡️ Antonyms: accumulate, collect, gather, neglect, not use, store
♋️ Debilitate /dɪˈbɪlɪteɪt /
▸ verb [with obj.] make (someone) very weak and infirm:
✅ he was severely debilitated by a stomach upset
(as adj. debilitated) a debilitated patient.
♓️▪ hinder, delay, or weaken:
hard drugs destroy families and debilitate communities.
– DERIVATIVES debilitation /-ˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ noun
debilitative /-tətɪv/ adjective
➡️ Synonyms: attenuate, blunt, cripple, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust
➡️ Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen
♋️ Sabotage /ˈsabətɑːʒ /
▸ verb [with obj.] deliberately destroy, damage, or obstruct (something), especially for political or military advantage:
✅ power lines from South Africa were sabotaged by rebel forces.
▸ noun [mass noun] the action of sabotaging something:
a coordinated campaign of sabotage.
⏩ Synonyms: demolition, destruction, disruption, impairment, injury, mischief, overthrow, subversion, subversiveness, treachery, treason, undermining
⏩ Antonyms: aiding, assistance, fix, help
♋️ Populist /ˈpɒpjʊlɪst /
▸ noun a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people.
⚛▪ a person who supports or seeks to appeal to the concerns of ordinary people:
✅ she is something of a populist—her views on immigration resemble those of the right-wing tabloid press.
➡️▸ adjective relating to or characteristic of a populist or populists:
⚛ populistic-ˈlɪstɪk/ adjective
⏩ Synonyms: autonomous, common, communal, constitutional, egalitarian, equal, free, friendly, individualistic, informal, just, libertarian, orderly,
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